homicides

Congregants pray for an end to streak of local homicides (pictured above: Solid Rock Baptist Church’s Rev. Waymon Monroe Jr. asks God to stem the city’s murder rate.) Perturbed by the recent rash of homicides, the pastor and flock of an East...

(pictured above: Flowers and candles sit near the spot where Jerome France died last month after he was intentionally hit by a pick-up truck.) The life of Jerome Dwayne France was celebrated last Thursday near the site where it came to a savage...

The city’s crime rate dropped in every category except homicides, Winston-Salem Police Chief Barry Rountree told members of the news media Monday at the Public Safety Center. As a whole, violent crime was at a five year low in 2013, and the...

(pictured above: Chief Barry Rountree wants guns off the streets.) City leaders are making a push to reduce gun violence this year after last year’s spike in gun-related homicides. Winston-Salem experienced a stark increase in murders last year;...

Black women most likely to be killed by the men they love Black women face a disproportionate share of fatal domestic violence in America, according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report, “When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2011...